Last Years 5 Highest-Paid NBA Players

There’s no doubt that the NBA is booming, and some of its superstars are among the highest-paid athletes in the world. Basketball agents and a fierce salary cap guarantee that the biggest stars will take home a massive amount every payday.

Here are the achievers of 2018:

DeMar DeRozan Is a Game Opener With his superlative contribution to the Toronto Raptors this year, DeMar DeRozan’s a year is just a few bucks under $28 million. Not bad.

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Mike Conley Is Hard at Work for the Bears Mike Conley had the largest deal in NBA when he signed his most recent deal but now he ranks 7th on our listing backed by his $28.5 million annual pay from the Memphis Grizzlies.

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Russell Westbrook Also Nabs 7th Place On the same spot with Conley is Oklahoma City Thunder’s, Russell Westbrook guaranteed to earn a cool amount of $28.5 million a year.

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Kyle Lowry’s Playing Big For The Raptors Kyle is doing great on the court and his Toronto Raptors team is happy to shell out $28.7 million a year. Giving his team an amazing average of 22.4 points per game, who wouldn’t be thrilled?

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James Harden’s Salary Skyrockets The Houston Rockets are generous to pay $28.3 million every year for James Harden. Scoring an average of 29.1 points a game, we won’t be surprised if he’ll be an Olympic candidate by 2020.

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The Wisdom Segment

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The first American football game was played between two college teams, Princeton and Rutgers, on November 6, 1869. The sport is called gridiron in Canada and the United States and is an offshoot of soccer and rugby that emerged during the 1800s and was professionalized in 1920.

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It was only during the implementation of the Rugby Union Code that carrying the ball was allowed. During the later part of the 1800s, Walter Camp, the Father of American Football, introduced a new set of rules. Old Walt established the snap and introduced the concept of downs, lines of scrimmage, and 11-player teams.

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Approximately two million footballs are made annually by The Wilson Sporting Goods Company, based in Ohio, which has been recognized as the NFLs official ball supplier since 1941. Did you know that about 600 cows are needed to make footballs for a whole season?

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Despite being a relatively new sport, American football has become wildly popular in the United States. In fact, the Super Bowl regularly ranks as the most-watched sports event in America. The 1958 NFL Championship game boosted gridiron's popularity to such an extent it was dubbed the Greatest Game Ever Played.

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Most athletes dream of getting into the NFL, not just for love of the game, but also to alleviate their family's poverty. The average salary of an NFL player is $2.1 million; however, due to poor financial management, most retired NFL athletes go bankrupt.

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Prime Time Deion Sanders played in the NFL for 14 seasons, and the MLB for nine seasons. No other athlete has ever made a home run in the MLB and scored a touchdown in the NFL in the same week, nor played in both the Super Bowl and the World Series.